"I think when I really, truly came out was the Golden Globes when Arrested Development was nominated [in 2004]," de Rossi recalled. "Ellen and I had been together for a month and I was very, very nervous going to that because I knew that I was going to meet up with her after the show, and that there was press. And that was the first time that we actually stepped out together as a couple, but for me, it was the first time I stepped out as a gay woman, really."